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With experts in biomedical science, software engineering, and program management, we focus on developing and applying research tools and techniques to empower decision-making and accelerate research discoveries. We work with some of the top research organizations and facilities in the country including multiple institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).\nAxle is seeking a Scientific Reviewer to join our vibrant team at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) supporting the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) located in Bethesda, MD.\nBenefits We Offer:\n100% Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage for Employees\nPaid Time Off and Paid Holidays\n401K match up to 5%\nEducational Benefits for Career Growth\nEmployee Referral Bonus\nFlexible Spending Accounts:Healthcare (FSA)\nParking Reimbursement Account (PRK)\nDependent Care Assistant Program (DCAP)\nTransportation Reimbursement Account (TRN)\n\nPosition Information:\nThe Contractor shall provide qualified scientific and operational services to support the planning, coordination, conduct, and documentation of NIH peer review activities. Services shall be performed in accordance with applicable NIH and CSR policies, procedures, guidance, and established review schedules. The Contractor shall collaborate with SROs, CSR leadership, reviewers, and review support staff to ensure assigned review activities and deliverables are completed accurately, consistently, and within established requirements and deadlines.\nAdditional Qualifications:\nCertifications & Licenses\nNo certification needed\n\nField of Study\nGeneral Medical and Health Services\n\nGeneral Social Sciences\n\nMiscellaneous Psychology\n\nPhysical Sciences\n\nGeneral Engineering\n\nMiscellaneous Biology\n\nSoftware\nIAR\n\nInternet Assisted Review\n\nPeer Review\n\neRA\n\nCMM (Committee Management Module)\n\nQVR\n\nQuery View Report\n\nSkills\nPeer review process for grants\n\nLiterature and database searches\n\nGrants and contract mechanisms\n\nAdministrative summaries\n\nSubject matter expert\n\nDeliverables:\nThe Contractor shall provide documentation and operational support for NIH application scientific reviews, including panel formation, reviewer recruitment and training, administrative compliance screenings, critique quality control, and meeting documentation.\n\nAdditionally, the Contractor shall prepare and finalize summary statements for all applications and deliver ad hoc support as required.\n\nAll work must be completed timely, accurately, and professionally in accordance with NIH policies, CSR best practices, and federal regulations.\n\nCritique and summary deliverables must be clear, objective, and accurately reflect key evaluation factors.\n\nContractor staff shall maintain effective, professional collaboration with Government leadership and reviewers while upholding strict ethics and confidentiality standards.\n\nDeficient deliverables shall be corrected and resubmitted at the Government’s direction. - Ad-Hoc\n\nStatement of Work Details:\nIdentify the administrative and the scientific issues in the grant applications or contract proposals, including the hypotheses and rationale presented in the applications/proposals. - 1\n\nIdentify and select reviewers by matching the expertise of the reviewer with the specific science contained in the research grant applications and recommend potential reviewers. - 2\n\nPerform a thorough review of the content of each individual application and its relevance in terms of the scientific interests of the Institute. - 3\n\nEnsure that high-quality written reviews are obtained. - 4\n\nPerforms administrative review of research grant applications.\n\nWork with staff to manage the scientific peer review of grant and cooperative agreement applications, and contract proposals assigned for primary merit review.\n\nServe as an internal authoritative source of information on application receipt, referral and grants management policies and procedures.\n\nIdentifies specific areas of expertise for peer review panel, searches databases and resources and prepares lists of potential reviewers.\n\nMake initial determinations regarding the appropriate assignment of all grants.\n\nMake assignment decisions and resolve conflicts in assignments based on knowledge of the scientific interests of the Institute.\n\nPrepares preliminary drafts of summary statements.\n\nReview draft documents and synthesize comments and incorporate appropriate comments from reviewers into final documents.\n\nProvide critical review of literature and evaluate research concepts, proposals, protocols, and reports.\n\nValidates and enters information into databases.\n\nWork with staff on entry of reviewer data into the Committee Management system in order to prepare peer review rosters.\n\nAssign applications to reviewers.\n\nDetermine appropriate meeting type; face-to-face, teleconference, Internet-Assisted meeting, etc.\n\nIdentifies involved persons who must be on a conflict-of-interest list and identifies deficiencies which must be addressed prior to review.\n\nAssess reviewers against applications for potential conflicts of interest.\n\nConsult with program staff to identify potential reviewers and ascertain conflicts of interest.\n\nExamine key personnel, institutional affiliations and letters of support associated with each grant application to determine potential conflicts of interest.\n\nAttends peer review meetings to take notes for use when preparing final summary of documentation of meeting proceedings.\n\nCaptures the results of committee deliberations during the review meeting.\n\nObtains written critiques from reviewers.\n\nObtain, evaluate and coordinate written critiques from expert reviewers.\n\nEnsure that high-quality written reviews are obtained.\n\nEvaluates incoming reviews for completeness and accuracy.\n\nIdentify the administrative and the scientific issues in the grant applications or contract proposals.\n\nEnsure that summary statements and technical evaluation reports are compiled and edited to produce high-quality documents.\n\nAnalyzes scientific content of grant applications.\n\nApply scientific knowledge in areas related to the mission and the NIH peer review process.\n\nEvaluate scientific aspects of concepts, proposals, protocols and reports for research.\n\nMentors and trains staff on scientific peer review processes and procedures.\n\nAssesses organizational need and develops training programs to improve accuracy and performance of peer review processes and procedures.\n\nDevelops training materials, job aids and instructions for use by peer reviewers.\n\nMentors and coaches peer reviewers in the performance of reviews.\n\nDisclaimer: The above description is meant to illustrate the general nature of work and level of effort being performed by individuals assigned to this position or job description. This is not restricted as a complete list of all skills, responsibilities, duties, and/or assignments required. Individuals may be required to perform duties outside of their position, job description or responsibilities as needed.\nThe diversity of Axle’s employees is a tremendous asset. We are firmly committed to providing equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and will not tolerate any illegal discrimination or harassment based on age, race, gender, religion, national origin, disability, marital status, covered veteran status, sexual orientation, status with respect to public assistance, and other characteristics protected under state, federal, or local law and to deter those who aid, abet, or induce discrimination or coerce others to discriminate.\nAccessibility: If you need an accommodation as part of the employment process please contact: \nThis role has a market-competitive salary with an anticipated base compensation range listed below. 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